Carmen Villain

"Memoria," the upcoming new album from Oslo based experimental artist Carmen Villain has a picture of a bunch of snails in a glass for its album cover art.  And that seems very appropriate given the practically oozing minimalist electronic vibes of "Entre Nosotros."  Listen to the track below and pre-order the album here from Smalltown Supersound.

Lost Girls

Lost Girls, Jenny Hval's collaborative project with multi-instrumentalist Havard Volden, are back with new song "Ruins."  There's an icy avant garde thing going on, and i am here for it.  Check the track out below and get it here from Smalltown Supersound.

Kelly Lee Owens

The wonderful UK artist Kelly Lee Owens is back next month with her third full-length album, "LP.8."  Her sophomore effort, "Inner Song," was positively divine, and she has described the sound of the new record as a combination of Throbbing Gristle and Enya which is a sound i think we can all get behind.  Check out "Olga" below and pre-order the record here from Smalltown Supersound.

Lost Girls

Lost Girls is the collaborative duo of writer, musician, and artist Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden.  The two have been making music together for the better part of a decade, and next month will see the arrival of their debut LP "Menneskekollektivet."  Check out the title track below, a sprawling and icy mix of synths and beats that begins as spoken word piece layed over an ambient soundscape that then morphs into something more hypnotic and dancey.  Cool, cool stuff.  Listen and pre-order the record here from Smalltown Supersound.

Kelly Lee Owens

I almost slept on the sophomore effort from Kelly Lee Owens that dropped today.  "Inner Song" feels like a meditative mix of techno and pop, that these days means closing your eyes and dancing in your bedroom.  Listen to "On" below and get the record here from Smalltown Supersound.

Deathprod

Here's some foreboding, kind of frightening drone sounds from experimental Norwegian artist Deathprod.  "Disappearance / Reappearance" sounds like the heralding cacophony that announces the return of some kind of Lovecraftian old god.  Dread abounds.  Doom is near.  Listen below and get the "Occulting Disk" LP here from Smalltown Supersound.

Carmen Villain

US born, half Mexican, half Norwegian artist Carmen Villain has a new EP of music heading our way in July.  "Observable Future" is a blend of ambient, electronic, and neo-classical sound, something for your meditative headspace, but also melancholy.  Listen below, stare out the window, observe the world, and get the "Both Lines Will Be Blue" 12" here via Smalltown Supersound.

Kelly Lee Owens - More Than a Woman

Coming off an excellent self-titled album earlier this year, Kelly Lee Owens just released a single covering Aaliyah's "More That a Woman," and then remixing it herself on the B-side.  I was never into Aaliyah's stuff back in the day, late 90's R&B being outside of my wheelhouse, but Owens' synthy and grooving take on the late artist's track is pretty infectious.  Listen below and get it here via Smalltown Supersound.

Carmen Villain (featuring Jenny Hval)

Here's a song from Norwegian/Mexican artist Carmen Villain's upcoming "Infinite Avenue" LP featuring fellow Norwegian Jenny Hval laying down some vocals.  "Borders" is a hushed and haunting looped track, churning and bubbling before Hval's feverish, escalating choruses, telling an abstract tale of racism and fear.  It's pretty amazing.  Listen below and get the LP from Smalltown Supersound.

Kelly Lee Owens and Jenny Hval

London producer Kelly Lee Owens teams with experimental musician Jenny Hval on the former's upcoming self-titled album, due in March on Smalltown Supersound.  Listen to the creeping, oozing "Anxi" below, bubbling, subdued electronics paired with Hval's haunting vocals.  It's an eerie forebear for 2017.

Brian Reitzell

LA-based composer Brian Reitzell, best known for his film score work with Sofia Coppola, just released his first solo album, "Auto Music," on Smalltown Supersound.  The album hums and throbs its way through shoegazey, electronic and often droney, motorik krautrock.  In many ways, it's driving music, but not entirely.  Listen to "Last Summer" below, featuring My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields on the organ.

Arp

Traditionally experimental artist Arp (Alexis Georgopolous" goes full-on bleeding soul on his latest jam "MORE (BLUES)" from new album "MORE," due in September on Smalltown Supersound.  Listen below, and make sure you dig on those organs.